New Releases

[Brian]

His website lists his discography so you can find the 9 CDs:

http://www.stephenhough.com/recordings.php

EDIT: This will NOT include the new (2020) Elgar violin sonata with Renaud Capuçon.

[Mandryka]

https://www.amazon.com/Memoria-Mea-Rebecca-Stewart/dp/B099C8F91X]

Tasters of the kyrie and Angus Dei of Missa Mater Patris are on spotify right now.

[Brian]

Includes 10 minutes of world premiere recordings, many of them Schubert's fugue exercises from when he was trying to learn counterpoint, but one of them a 4 minute long chunk written in 1827. (D. 916b - D. 916c is also here and was previously recorded on Brilliant.)

[Brian]

Apparently it's already time to plan your purchases in OCTOBER!



This will be a COMPLETE HIP CYCLE (Chiaroscuro/Beethoven).



So determined to erase his Cello Concerto No. 2, they removed the number.





Yes, they are releasing the Pathetique as a single disc on the same day they're releasing the whole box set. I guess for people who really don't wanna hear 1-5?



Transcriptions of a bunch of arias, plus a trio sonata by CPE and a short piece by Mozart.







Mussorgsky Pictures + Enescu Suite No. 2

[Brian]

OCTOB-MORE





Absolute monster recording - "world premiere of the original uncut version" - 5 acts, 2 hrs 45 minutes, cast of 15 named characters, choir and in this case also an "Extra Choir"!!



Spohr nonet + original version of Brahms Serenade 1



Separating this out because I didn't know that Pepe Romero is now making guitars - he made the two guitars Coves uses here.







This is on piano and Escaich wrote a new completion of the final fugue.

[SonicMan46]

Apparently it's already time to plan your purchases in OCTOBER!

Transcriptions of a bunch of arias, plus a trio sonata by CPE and a short piece by Mozart.

 

Some GREAT choices, Brian! Just a comment on Xenia Löffler - I recently bought the CD inserted above at the end of the row - on that recording she plays on a historic oboe copy from c. 1710 which sounds beautiful and upfront - assume she is using the same or a similar period instrument on the upcoming release.  Dave

[Mirror Image]

Boy, BIS is really pushing that Fagerlund. Can't say I was too impressed with the works I've heard from him so far.

[Brian]

Even more October stuff!!!!





Six solo sonatas + the Poeme Elegiaque with Daniel Grimwood, piano



bizarrely the pianists alternate taking turns piece by piece



Plus also - these have varying release dates in different parts of the world but I haven't seen them mentioned here before so:





1-5. Marianelli: Pride & Prejudice Suite
'Dawn'
'Leaving Netherfield'
'Georgiana'
'The Living Sculptures of Pemberley'
'Mrs D'Arcy'
6. Couperin: Le Tic Toc ou Les Maillotins                                       
7. Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor K.466                             
8. Schubert/R.Strauss: Kupelwieser-Walzer                                     
9. Chopin: Waltz No. 19 in A minor (KK IVb Nr.11)                                 
10. Liszt: Consolation No. 3                                         
11. Brahms: Intermezzo Op.118 No. 2                                           
12. Elgar/Ciccolini: Salut d'Amour           
13. Pierne: Étude de Concert Op.13                             
14. Granados: Quejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor from Goyescas Suite No. 4                             
15. Villa-Lobos: O polichinelo from A próle do bébé                                       
16. Poulenc: Hôtel from Banalités                                                                                                               
17. Sancan: Boîte à Musique                                             
18. M.Gould: Boogie-Woogie Etude                                 
19. Cherkassky: Prélude Pathétique                                       
20. Gershwin/Wild: Embraceable You (7 Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin No. 4)                                           
21. Harline & Washington/Thibaudet: When You Wish Upon a Star
22. Trenet/Weissenberg: En avril à Paris                               
23. Wilder/Charlap: I'll be Around                                   
24. Barber/Thibuadet: Adagio
(what a wildly sad way to end this album after lots of happy stuff?!?!?!)





I guess this is a reduction/condensation of their gigantic complete works box set.



Finally no artwork yet but

Zoltan Kocsis - Complete Recordings on Philips
26 CDs
no release date listed

[Brian]

I'm trying really hard not to buy all the Big Boxes that come out but the complete Kocsis and the Falla edition are too good to resist.

Boy, BIS is really pushing that Fagerlund. Can't say I was too impressed with the works I've heard from him so far.

The new cello concerto did not impress me at all but I liked the bassoon and clarinet concertos a lot.

[Mirror Image]

I'm trying really hard not to buy all the Big Boxes that come out but the complete Kocsis and the Falla edition are too good to resist.

I'll definitely be acquiring the Falla set and, yes, Kocsis set will be outstanding, but I'll be passing on it as I try to avoid buying performer box sets unless that performer box set is dedicated to only one composer. I just don't like the idea of having stuff from various composers that I'm never going to listen to along with composers that I will listen to.

[Symphonic Addict]

That Toccata disc of Arnold's Grand Concerto Gastronomique is clearly something I want to hear!

[Karl Henning]

bizarrely the pianists alternate taking turns piece by piece

Gimmickry.

[Mirror Image]

Gimmickry.

Indeed. Completely senseless.

[T. D.]

I'll definitely be acquiring the Falla set and, yes, Kocsis set will be outstanding, but I'll be passing on it as I try to avoid buying performer box sets unless that performer box set is dedicated to only one composer. I just don't like the idea of having stuff from various composers that I'm never going to listen to along with composers that I will listen to.

I'm pretty much the same way. Have held off on the Heidsieck box, for instance, because I already own his Beethoven; the Faure and Hindemith are alluring but I don't want to acquire a big brick just for a few component discs.
Seriously tempted by the Kocsis, though, will wait for a list of contents (yeah, I could figure it out, but too lazy); if I didn't already have his 8-CD solo Bartok box it'd be a no-brainer.

[Mirror Image]

I'm pretty much the same way. Have held off on the Heidsieck box, for instance, because I already own his Beethoven; the Faure and Hindemith are alluring but I don't want to acquire a big brick just for a few component discs.
Seriously tempted by the Kocsis, though, will wait for a list of contents (yeah, I could figure it out, but too lazy); if I didn't already have his 8-CD solo Bartok box it'd be a no-brainer.

Yeah, the Kocsis Bartók recordings are no-brainers, especially if you love this composer. Thankfully, they were all included in the Bartók Decca box set I bought a number of years ago. The Heidsieck set does look interesting, but, like you, there isn't enough repertoire that I'm interested in to buy it. I pulled the trigger on the Ozawa Warner set, but I ended up cancelling this order because there was some repertoire that I just didn't want.

[T. D.]

Kocsis's Debussy recordings are outstanding. I once bought a set (used) but had to return it because one disc was scratched. Never found a replacement at reasonable price.
That's a big selling point for the forthcoming box.

[Mirror Image]

Kocsis's Debussy recordings are outstanding. I once bought a set (used) but had to return it because one disc was scratched. Never found a replacement at reasonable price.
That's a big selling point for the forthcoming box.

Yes, I love Kocsis' Debussy, too, but I bought all of these Philips recordings individually. The Préludes set (coupled with Children's Corner and some other shorter pieces) was the hardest recording to find.

[T. D.]

Kocsis details at jpc!

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/zoltan-kocsis-complete-philips-recordings/hnum/10686774

I may go for this, subject to price...already own discs 13-20, but of the rest, only 2 (Mozart PC and Wagner transcriptions) fall into the "don't care" category.

[Brian]

I try to avoid buying performer box sets unless that performer box set is dedicated to only one composer. I just don't like the idea of having stuff from various composers that I'm never going to listen to along with composers that I will listen to.

For me it's always purely a mathematical decision on price. For example, eyeballing the Kocsis set, there are about 16-17 CDs in there that I do not own that I'd like to. So if the price ever comes down to something that's a bargain for 17 CDs - say, $60 - then I'll jump on it. But if it stays up near $120, I'll pass with regret.

That Toccata disc of Arnold's Grand Concerto Gastronomique is clearly something I want to hear!

The booklet has an extensive explanation of the challenges of recording it for CD rather than presenting it live and an explanation of what you miss not seeing it on stage. For example, one movement must be repeated by the orchestra as often as necessary while a guy on stage eats a plate of roast beef. Some "eaters" try to eat quickly to avoid too many repetitions, while others take their time to torture the musicians! On this recording they do three repetitions (totaling 1 minute).

[Madiel]

Gimmickry.

Or just 2 pianists who know that each of them does better on certain kinds of pieces. Why is teamwork a bad thing in this particular context?